OSNews writing about social networks? Yes, it happens, and today is one of those days. We all know Facebook is king here, with a massive userbase and a seemingly unbreakable hold over the market, with Twitter covering the more public side of social networking. Google does some stuff in a fringe somewhere with something called Google+ which tries to combine Facebook and Twitter, but it's effectively a ghost town with a confusing interface. So, if you're Microsoft, what are you going to do? Well, build your own social network, of course!

G+ is a quiet town, not a ghost town. Miles better than the constant noise on Facebook.

Hell yeah. The fact that Google+ didn't have a lot of the useless crap out of the box that Facebook does kept most of the mouth breathers off G+. Where my Facebook feed is mostly filled with 'if you know anybody who has ever died of cancer/been sodomized by a wooden cooking spoon, post this as your status!', my G+ streams have none of that shit. And neither am I constantly bombarded by app/game requests on G+ either.

As for Microsoft, perhaps we need to add them to the 'death watch' list, along with RIM, even if it'll be a much slower death.

And, not to rain on elitist parades of r_a_trip and like-minded (hm, w8, that's exactly what I want to do ;p ) or anything, but - ultimately we very much care about this aspect of our life.

After all, our existence will be randomized in a very short amount of time (few decades ...well, with finishing touches maybe centuries or millennia away if you try hard; still, a blink of an eye, in geological time scales)